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Author: Richard

Richard Everywriter (pen name) is the founder of EveryWriter and a 25-year veteran of the publishing industry. With degrees in Writing, Journalism, Technology, and Education, Richard has dedicated two decades to teaching writing and literature while championing emerging voices through EveryWriter's platform. His work focuses on making literary analysis accessible to readers at all levels while preserving the rich heritage of American literature. Connect with Richard on Twitter  Bluesky Facebook or explore opportunities to share your own work on ourSubmissions page. For monthly insights on writing and publishing, subscribe to our Newsletter.

5 Most Difficult Things for Literary Magazine Editors

Posted on February 17, 2013June 30, 2017 by Richard

It’s late. You’ve been working for 9 hours straight getting all the coding just right to launch your issue. You have to be up at 6:30 for work, and it’s 1:15am. If you could just finish these last few tweaks

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What Interests Readers

Posted on February 14, 2013May 8, 2019 by Richard

To interest readers is obviously the prime object in all popular writing. The basis of interest in the news story, the special feature article, and the short story is essentially the same. Whatever the average person likes to hear and see, whatever gives him

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50 Writing Tips

Posted on January 14, 2013May 29, 2017 by Richard

This is our ever growing list of writing tips. It is a general list of suggestions that we hope will help you in your writing and in the life of writing.

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ipad for Writers? Maybe not yet.

Posted on January 8, 2013May 29, 2017 by Richard

The ipad is outstanding, of course. It is an amazing piece of visionary technology. It’s great for entertainment and fun, fun, fun, but as a writer should you dump your laptop and go to the smaller flashier screen?

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Art by Nate Howard

Posted on December 27, 2012May 8, 2019 by Richard

Nate Howard has traveled the world as a photojournalist. The photographs he sent to us were from, Russia, Mexico, Iraq, and Kosovo. Photography taken all around the world does not always have a lot of similarities

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Christmas Crackers by W.F. Dawson (1902)

Posted on December 13, 2012January 30, 2023 by Richard

One of the popular institutions inseparable from the festivities of Christmastide has long been the “cracker.” The satisfaction which young people especially experience in pulling the opposite ends

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Art by William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr.

Posted on December 6, 2012May 8, 2019 by Richard

William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. earned his degree as a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May 2005.  While at UTC William became very interested in the postmodern painting practice of image appropriation.  William is also very interested in mass media imagery…

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Art by James Sholes

Posted on November 29, 2012May 8, 2019 by Richard

Yawn James Sholes is an artist and teacher from Ohio. James has worked in education for 10 years teaching almost all levels of students including university students at Firelands College. James has been an artist all his life. You can contact the artist at jamessholes (at) yahoo (dot) com.

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Great Gift and Option for Self Publishing

Posted on November 28, 2012March 12, 2017 by Richard

Blurb is a company that recently came across our radar, and I have to say I like what I see. They offer self-publishing and on demand printing for anyone looking. Now if you just want to put together a very nice looking photo book of all your memories, I’m very sure the writer in your life would love it…

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Inspiration for Writers 11 Cool Sites

Posted on November 25, 2012May 29, 2017 by Richard

The following is a list of 11 writing sites that will bring you inspiration in your writing. They are prompt sites, or sites with exercises, or just very cool stuff to play with.

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Art by Christopher Woods

Posted on November 15, 2012May 8, 2019 by Richard

Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK.

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Short Story about Tech Issues

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Richard

Well if you searched our site on Google yesterday, and maybe today, you will see a warning that says our site “may have been compromised.” Boy did this get us all jumping. We did not know that around the time of the Google crawl, we had someone having fun with the site. When I say fun, I mean they were trying to cause us all kinds of trouble and break into our home page

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Awards Writers Should Know

Posted on November 5, 2012May 4, 2019 by Richard

Awards Writers Should Know We think the net is a tool. Sure it’s a community, a voice, an amplifier, but it was created as a tool. To that end we think that great writers will want to read great works. They might be in a genre or literary fiction, but knowing and reading great works…

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Art by Lyanda Warne

Posted on November 4, 2012May 8, 2019 by Richard

The human form inspires me to paint. I look for a gesture that I can exploit in order to reveal something about the subjects personality. For me it’s more about the manipulation of the paint

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10 Movies Based on Books! (Coming Soon)

Posted on October 31, 2012July 14, 2017 by Richard

10 Movies Based on Books! Coming Soon Near you, and all that jazz These 10 movies, based on novels, are coming out over the next year or so. We are looking forward to all of these (some more than others of course). A few we are very excited about On the Road should be awesome….

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